Tips For Playing Multiple Tables Online
As you get more comfortable playing poker online, you’ll naturally start to think “hey, I make money playing one table - if I played two tables, I would make double the money! three tables, triple!” and so on. Well there are a few reasons why you might want to think twice about playing as many you can cram on your screen, and a few things you should do if you think twice and decide to do it anyway:
1) Don’t play multiple tables because it decreases your edge. In theory, you should be a better player because of your ability to better evaluate a given situation than the average player. Play more than one table, you lose that edge.
2) Don’t play multiple tables because it makes tilt far worse. Getting killed on one table is bad enough. but as we all know when things are running bad, they run bad, and getting killed on two or three tables is a sickening experience that feeds frustration and bad play.
3) Don’t play multiple tables because you will make mistakes. Everything from folding when you should have called to hitting the wrong button when tables switch [you hear horror stories about this from NL players].
4) If you still want to play a few at once, set your display resolution to the highest setting your eyes can handle [start > control panel > display > settings in windows]. Most people set their monitors at 800 x 600, and you can barely see two tables that way.
5) Choose your table arrangement carefully. Select tables that allow you to see your hand at EVERY table at all times. Sitting in the corners is usually your best bet here. Also be careful to not have any of the action buttons of tables overlap, as tables tend to pop to the front unexpectedly. Some sites let you disable this feature by the way - it’s usually called “auto focus” or “auto switch.”
